Image-guided control of a robot for medical ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-23

  Abolmaesumi, Purang ^a,b   Salcudean, Septimiu E ^b   Zhu, Wen Hong ^a,b,c   Sirouspour, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   DiMaio, Simon P ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Canadian Standards Association   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasound; Feature tracking; Medical ultrasound robot; Tele ultrasound; Ultrasound image servoing

Indexed keywords

FEATURE TRACKING; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND ROBOT; ULTRASOUND IMAGE SERVOING;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERNET; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTIC ARMS; SERVOMECHANISMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0036476884     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.988970     Document Type: Article

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